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Mauley's first thought, In his dflsm- B ma, was to commandeer soma nearby j c car. Yet nothing but a racCT7 he re- j membered as he snatched out his | 11 watch, could get him to the Central b Tower building in time. ! n Wis next ihoueht. however, took him X next

, tearing down the village street like a t madman. For the name of "Cedarton" 1 t had brought Into his mind yet another s name, the name of "Bobby. Evart." And i t Bobby Evart, who had his workshop t and hangar on the southerly outskirts *• { ' of that village, had been the first of v the Racquet club members to forsake j t automobiles for aviation, and startle 1 Long Island by his early morning ; c hydroplane maneuvers over suburban 1 golf courses and country homes. He had been the first civilian volunteer for the federal air scouts and at San Diego had twice broken his own altitude record established at Pensacola. and was now Immured in the mysterious task of fashioning a stabilizes foi monoplanes, a stabilizer, Manley re membered, which was receiving sympathetic attention from certain navy officials in Washington. Instead of finding this same intrepid Bobby poring over blue prints St stabilizer parts, however, the breathless Manley -found his old-time friend in a rattan club chair tranquilly playing chess with his maiden aunt. In two minutes the breathless newcomer had explained to the somewhat aged young chess player a situation which brought a brighter light Into the latter's boyish eyes. 'The point is," cried Manley, "could you get me there. Could you make a landing at night t" They were already on their feet again, running for the hangar. . \ "Yes, I can get you there! But what have we got to make a landing on?" "The main building of the Centra' tower stops at the eighteenth story That gives us a flat roof of several hundred yards. Could you make it on that?" "Not unless It was lighted!" ex . plained Evart, shouting for his mechanician as he rounded the gloomy corner of the hangar itself. "But It is lighted." Manley told him. "It gets the light from the tower itself, and the whole cornice line is strung With electrics, the same as the Singer « f building!" Evart's finger, touching a button I threw a white flood across the vaulted 1 roof of the building. A touch on another button sent the great doors swinging open. Manley looked at his i • watch. Then be shook his head. i "It's too late." he proclaimed. But i Evart and his mechanician were ri- i ready at work. on the wlde-wlngdfi < " monstrosity nedjfed under Its metal I roof Uke a ptercSactyl In a cave. 1 "Get aboard," commanded Evart- 1 "We're going to try for It anyway! « He turned to bls'helper. "Hey. Brown. < I threw- my friend up that -fur coat of ' rk&r j "But what speed can you get out ol this machine?" asked Manley as he clambered aboard the chassis and Struggled with his seat-straps. Evert, who had been stooping over his engines, looked up. "I got "one hundred and four an hour out of her this morning." he off-hand- 1 edly announced. "But I think I can 1 push her up to one hundred and ten." j Mauley's heart beat faster. -. "Then there's a chance!" he cried. ^ "A fighting chance." A sudden sense of chlD eauaed Manley to clutch for the fur coat thrown In at his feet, and straggle Into to 1 As he did so the earth seemed Mft■denly to fall away from him. Villages ( ' became spangled checker-boards of Tififats. Highways became winding strings of pearls. ( . , ...Manley forgot the chilliness striking Into his bones. He forgot Margery 1 ^ -Golden and I-egar- He forgot the orl- 1 gin of his mission that brougr.t him winging through the midnight heavens. He forgot the fact of his own puny existence and the trivial ends to which it had been given over. All these he forgot, completely and utterly, until Evart. sweeping out along ] the twinkling shore lights of South Brooklyn, circled north again where the brazen figure of Uberty guarded the upper bay. and dropped lower along that tapering point of g'.oom where Battery park nosed like a ship's prow into the tides of the Atlantic. They were still planing down, gently, i . Uke a settling sea bird, with the tilted i planes veering a little westward to es- i cape the beetling skyscrapers along ■ the canyon of lower Brcadway. Manley thought, for a moment, that ' Evart had misjudged his position. , Then he felt sure that Evart had also misjudged his height, that his stabilizing fin wpp already too low to clear the flat roof that .abutted the light- 1 1 strewn tower itself. j ' But Evart.. obviously, knew what • ' he was about. For he took that oblong of flat gldbm outlined In electrics ; with a gentle upward undulation like 1 y the upward swoop of a bluebird alight ' lng on a maple tree. Into that artful upward swoop was absorbed much of ! their momentum, for Evart had plainly remembered that their running bpace was limited. But even with this precaution there remained a perilous paucity of . runway, for before the < bounding and quivering organism of 1 nickel and steel and canvas came to 1 s stop it lurched head-on into a wall 1 of the tower Itself. 1 Manley could hear the crash of glass as the damper plane at the nose of the quivering chassis brought up short against one of .the tower windows. 1 He was dimly aware of half-tumbiing > and half-climbing through a network stays and cross-guya. He was vaguely conscious of Evart calling out that evaythiag wae eQ right, that there was

damage which a half -hour's work couldn't patch up. | But Manley, in truth, was thinking ; of either Evart or his filer. All thoughts, as he climbed frantically : through the broken tower window, were revolving about the problem as whether or not be was too late. And that all-vital question still obsessed him as he mounted the iron treads of the stairway leading to the top, panting up flight after flight until his lungs seemed bursting for want of air, and his over-driven heart ! drumlike against his rib-cage. And as he reached the top and flung out through the narrow door /opening

"T hey Fought With Gasps and Grunts. ,

the campanile-like balcony crown- ! ing that skyscraping structure, be even as he saw two figures standing there before him. that he That much he knew, even before he caught at enough bieath to call out warning to Enoch Golden or swing about and spring for the second figure, already shrinking back in the shadow of that many-columned cupola. For in the hand of the second figure Manley had already caught sight of a tell-tale sheet of paper. It was a yellowed | and time-worn scrap of paper, and lit- j tie more, but to Manley it had become i the emblem and pennon of a desperate a flag to be rallied round and 1 fought for. to the last ditch and the last gasp, as harried soldiers fight ; through the smoke of battle tor their j colors. And Manley, as he clinched with Le- J gar's stalwart emissary, fought for it. j Xor was his opponent one to be despised. The two men fought along the crest of that midnight tower as two mountain Hons might fight along the brink of an Andean precipice. They fought with gasps and grunts, with strange guttural sounds, with teeth bared and face distorted, blind to the blows that were given and taken, unconscious of the fact that the very paler for which they were fighting had already fallen to the cupola floor, and there had been blown by the north wind to the furthermost *edge of I !he cornice circling th<> stone column supports. i Golden himself was already reaching • for that paper when I.egar's ronfed . •"C'.i-' sv.-.Ll sight of It. broke from 1 M Alley's grasp and dove bodily for » \-r«' it lay. Manley. a second later, followed him. There half astrido the ba'nsirade of coppered wood painted o look like marble, the fight waa renewed. Each crouched low as he 'ought, drunkenly conscious now ot tbs abyss that yawned so close to his ft-, t. Hut still they fought. Then a second breath of night , bi ee7e. sighing through the tower top. carried tl.e paper slowly along the cornice edge It was Legar's man who j saw it as it moved. He wrenched i away, twisted about, and caught at it | it fell. But already he was too | late, it lifted with the wind, drifted and eddied slowly about in the moon- I light, and floated swayinglv down Into j the darker canyon of Broadway, where i ; It was soon lost to light. But neither Maniey nor his enemy I sa-r that descent, for Legflr s man at ! he lurched suddenly forward threw ail I weight on the outstanding copper j cornice, painted white to look like . only for ornamentation, and not for ! support. For Its fastenings surrea | tiered to the strain of that suddenly , Imposed weight and the buckling seg t ment of copper swayed outward as the 1 desperately-clinging fingers cluit-bed ; it its edges. Manley. hanging to the balustrade with one arm reached out to grasp that buckling strip of metal to which a helpless man was hanging sheer over space. He caught at it. even as Golden caught at his straining shoul tiers to bold him steady. But a law. stronger than the will of man. seemed to suck the metal slowly, inevitably, out of the clutch of nls tired Angers. Then the last fastenings gave, the strained and twisted sheetmetal tore slowly vwuy. and tne black shadow of a man fell like a plummet to the iron and stone of Broadway, three tuadred feet below. (TO BE COKTZNUSto) i ! i •

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GRiEN CREEK - George Aegveriahu wife entertained company o»er Sunday. C A. B. Mffier had a party here from t Cape May City Thursday gunning quail t Belmar 'tomes, who has been with <1 Capt, William Wilkie in his barge, has I resigned his position. ^ William Conover, who has been suf- > fering u'itli , malaria fever anil pneu- - monia. is dm improving. 1 Frank !Jc|Hng«head, who Wight the d Newton property, will repair the bouse .and rent its- « I Fir.- Warden Hickman was notified of a for.-st , fire on the Junction road • Sunday evening. Aided by a force of men had tfce fire under control in a ' . couple of hdurs. It burned over several acres of bush land. I Several of. our men assisted Leslie P. i 1 ■

Bate at Fishing Creek in gathering his sixteen hundred bushels of potatoes. Frank Bell has been quite rick with i a sore throat. He is better, now. The members of Excelsior Castle, K. E., who do not attend the meeting this Saturday evening will miss a Cue f Ralph Sehellinger and wife spent Sunafternoon with her mother at Court Truman Hickman attended the anniof the Fishing Creek Chapel Sunday afternoon and greatly enjoyed the fine address of Judge "Harry ElMr. Sanderlan, of Fishing Creek, called on friends here Sunday. Miss Emma Hand of Court Houac "pent Sunday with Miss Ella Thompson. Wesley Thompson and wife entertained company Sunday. W. II. Thompson slaughtered a four pound hog Monday. dept. Joseph James has shipped with i — — - .

i Capt. William WilkTe in his barge. . J Joel Fisher and wife of bias Creek ' " i spent Sunday with their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Alvin Fisher at the home of . her parents, John Bell and wife. ; Thj Sate Deposit Vaalt of the Saeurity Trust Co. lias modern dtrioos - for security and ■' dmreniapca. Bona 1 ranted at $2 and upward* ' ' Ral a Spouting, Gutter* and Tin Roofs. Good work at ennsb-taut prices Jesas V, Br0W>, no and il< faeksoa St CASTOR1A For Infants and Children In Use ForOvet-30 Yrars r Always bears

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